https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198548621.003.0004
Pages 95–116
Published: November 1994
Abstract
Over the last decade, numerous reviews and studies have appeared in books and journals addressing the Middle East water issues. These have generally been diluted with multiple political arguments. A very sensitive and misused commodity by nature, water has often been manipulated by human beings driven by different aspirations and political ambitions. Several divergent views and political arguments have emerged concerning the use of transboundary rivers. It is not, however, the intention of this paper to go into the merits and demerits of these distinct approaches; rather it attempts to indicate some technical solutions which could help determine the supply and demand balance of the water required by the riparian countries in the Euphrates-Tigris basin.
Keywords: Supply-augmenting policies, Demand-management policies, no damage to nature, Rapid Rural Survey, absolute territorial integrity
Subject: Ecology and ConservationEconomic DevelopmentMeteorology and Climatology
Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
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